Haha!!! That reminds me of my roommates build. He's running an Athlon X2 250 w/ one (1) Sapphire HD 5770 all at stock speed...his PSU? >>> A CM 1000w Silent Pro Modular. I kinda talked him into it telling him he's have it for at least 15 years!! In case he upgrades...which I'm sure he will

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How are you liking the NZXT Vulcan. I was linked to a review of the case by a friend a couple of days ago and really liked the general layout and size of the case. What are your impressions? (other than it's small OFC)

Redid my water loop today and took out the single 120 rad and left the 240 rad in there and also turned the fans so they blew air out the top and i must say temps dropped pretty good. up to 5 deg i ran prime95 on max heat for 45 minutes and didnt go above 52 deg

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Well i did 45 minutes of prime95 on max heat with the cpu @ 4ghz @1.25v and it did fairly well. it got full load at 68deg. Not the coolest temps but it will do

Redid my water loop today and took out the single 120 rad and left the 240 rad in there and also turned the fans so they blew air out the top and i must say temps dropped pretty good. up to 5 deg i ran prime95 on max heat for 45 minutes and didnt go above 52 deg

I just used Prime95 cause it generates the most heat. linX doesnt do a good job. i believe InteBurnTest is the best

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Really? That looks like you're doing blend or something other than small FFTs and, for me, OCCT's linpack generates ~10c more heat than Prime95, unless you do small FFTs, but even then OCCT is a few degrees warmer. Also in my testing, OCCT catches instability a bit quicker than Prime95.

thank you i officially use under 200 watts of it but its nice in case i want to u know 5970 crossfire on liquid or something down the road

also on a serious side not i always buy huge psu's because i change my rigs a ton so if i keep like 1000w+ pus's around they will always power any rig i put them in like that tt 1200w its been in 3 pcs one had 4 4890s so thats why i have the huge psu's

thank you i officially use under 200 watts of it but its nice in case i want to u know 5970 crossfire on liquid or something down the road

also on a serious side not i always buy huge psu's because i change my rigs a ton so if i keep like 1000w+ pus's around they will always power any rig i put them in like that tt 1200w its been in 3 pcs one had 4 4890s so thats why i have the huge psu's

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+ a PSU is usually something that you're gonna keep for a very long time if you're smart imo

so you might as well get some good stuff to begin with instead of upgrading it all the time

+ a PSU is usually something that you're gonna keep for a very long time if you're smart imo

so you might as well get some good stuff to begin with instead of upgrading it all the time

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very much agree i have a old galaxy 1000w around still weighs as much as a brick still going strong i think it was like 500$+ when i picked it up and i still have it and its going strong to this day 24/7 use